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Leadtools.Document Introduction

Summary

The LEADTOOLS Document class library provides a uniform set of programming tools for creating, reading, and writing raster and SVG images, annotations, thumbnails, text data, metadata, and bookmarks from supported document types.

Key Features

Develop fully functional document viewing applications with unlimited and smooth page zooming, thumbnails, metadata, and text search (without needing to know any specifics about the file format being used). The LEADTOOLS Document Viewer uses the Document library to provide such functionality.

Supported Document Types

All file formats supported by LEADTOOLS can be used with the Document class library. These formats include but are not limited to:

Adobe Acrobat PDF and PDF/A
Microsoft Office DOCX/DOC, XLSX/XLS, and PPTX/PPT
CAD formats such as DXF, DWG, and DWF
TIFF, JPEG, PNG, EXIF, BMP, and a hundred more raster image formats
Plain Text and RTF
HTML
ePub

Programming Capabilities

Use the library to add the following capabilities to applications:

Convert documents from any format to another using OCR and SVG technologies. The LEADTOOLS Document Converter Library uses the Document classes to provide this support.
Load and create document objects, as well as manage the global cache
Provide uniform support for any type of document
Add document annotations and redactions
Read/include embedded or external attachments
Work with barcodes, bookmarks, and caching
Manipulate images and pages

All the above support is provided natively by LEADTOOLS, without the need of any 3rd party tools or applications installed on the system.

Supported Environments

Leadtools.Document Introduction

Summary

Key Features

Supported Document Types

Programming Capabilities

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